Trump’s Default: The Mist of Empire is a visionary novel set between 2025 and 2029, chronicling America’s surreal economic collapse and its unexpected spiritual rebirth. In 2028, as Donald Trump reaches the final year of his second term, the U.S. formally defaults on its debt—unleashing not just financial chaos, but a breakdown of reality itself.

Economic concepts become physical: iridescent Trade Mist fills port cities, Deficit Dust coats buildings, the Debt Cliff hovers above Washington, and Dollar Smog clouds perception. Amid this unraveling, Elon Musk breaks from Trump to form The Tesla Party, powered by a decentralized civic system called TeslaGov. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins as its presidential candidate, and her campaign—The Circuit—becomes a participatory, AI-driven movement.

As the Default Drift sweeps west, distorting memory and time, a Global Echo hums through Earth, collapsing markets and inspiring decentralized systems of trust and value. AOC wins the 2028 election in a landslide under the Surplus Storm. GDP fades. The new metrics: Rhythm Standard, Sky Trust, and Grounding Rights.

Journalist Leila Sadeghi documents it all—from factories to SparkZone rituals—chronicling how collapse births a new, rooted America. By 2029, the mist clears, and The Air Beneath Our Feet—a sentient, community-linked ground—emerges.

Trump’s Default is a poetic fable of empire’s end. It asks: What if collapse isn’t doom, but awakening? What if the empire was built not on power—but forgetting? Now, remembering begins.